Thea Barlow, an ex-teacher from Chicago, gets a job as an editor for Western True Adventures, a magazine of the Old West. Her first assignment is to get the story of Halfway Halt, a defunct whorehouse in Hijax, Wyoming. When she arrives, she's met with anger and hostility from the townspeople, who suspect she's there as a new girl for the whorehouse The residents do not want the old ways revived in their town.When a local woman is murdered outside...